Thanks Jem. Are you one of the chosen and gifted souls listed on the left hand column of that insightful blog? I think you meant to link to this post: http://www.dailyspeculations.com/wordpress/?p=9249
The 3 generations thing is interesting. In the UK, I think there is a saying that goes "from clogs to clogs in three generations." I remembered when I visited my Chinese friend in college and was talking to his family when his dad said there was an ancient Chinese idiom,"Wealth does not pass 3 generations".
Not me. I no longer trade full time. My edge dminishing and getting married and having 4 kids was not consistent with my being able trade for a living with the size account I had. Once I stopped being significantly profitable I ceased blogging about trading. (that was a long time ago probably predating the word blog.) I looked up helmholtz... with such a fondness for esoterica, i must presume you are one of the chosen and gifted souls in the left hand column.
"A Helmholtz resonator or Helmholtz oscillator is a container of gas (usually air) with an open hole..." Yep. That's him! Interesting...isn't Taleb the "Anti-Vic?" You go, S!!!
what happened to billionaire ? How and the hell do you blow up on a 3.5% market down move ? I assume he was naked short puts but to blow up he had to be leveraged way beyond reality.